1/2 of Jedward nearly killed (what went wrong)

Lando Griffin

1/2 of Jedward were nearly killed yesterday.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0705/jedward.html

18-year-old Edward Grimes was brought to hospital yesterday with a suspected broken leg after he injured himself on stage during a performance for Channel 4's 'T4 On The Beach' with his twin, John.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the teen is being treated in hospital for his injuries which are believed to be either a broken leg or twisted knee ligaments.
The incident occurred while the duo were performing a medley of songs. Edward grabbed his leg after the fall and tried to get up to continue with the performance.
A spokerperson said "We think he's broken his leg and at the very least has badly twisted the ligament in his knee."
Their manager, Louis Walsh, said he was concern about Edward. He told the Daily Mail "It was live TV and that's what can happen on live TV. They were excited to be performing in front of 70,000 people and we hope he's all right."

Kiera

Breaking a leg means you nearly died?

mikemac

Nearly killed, he broke a leg

Edit: beaten to it ^^

NothingMan

Kiera wrote: »

Breaking a leg means you nearly died?

Of course not. I followed the ambulance to the hospital with the intention of finishing him off.

ElaElaElano

Didn't Peter André also fall off the stage at that thing last year? Keep up the good work stage designer, you'll get the big result we're all looking for one day.

Cookie_Monster

Maybe the doctor will put him out of his misery

Blam-Blam

Ilyushin76

Lando Griffin

Kiera wrote: »

Breaking a leg means you nearly died?

Sorry it should have read.

1/2 of Edwards leg dead.

Pherekydes

Should've stuck to running.

Kiera

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Sorry it should have read.

1/2 of Edwards leg dead.

Putting the words Jedward + dead together just gets everyones hopes up

Hasmunch

1/2 of Jedward nearly killed (what went wrong)

Two things went wrong

1. he "nearly" died
2. It was only one of them

orourkeda

They're alreasy dead from the neck up. All we need is the rest of their bodies to catch up.

Dravokivich

Who?

Myrddin

Kiera wrote: »

Putting the words Jedward + dead together just gets everyones hopes up

Deadward, unfortunately not so.

AnonoBoy

I f*cking love Jake and Edward.

Biggins

I do have to laugh at the knocking they get.

Here we have two lads who can't sing, can't dance, have girls falling at their feet, making loads of money and living it up.

...And they get knocked!

Lets be real, they could be any single Irish bloke according to the first part of the above description.
They just had the gaul to step up and chance their arm.

Fair fcuks to them I say! LOL

amcalester

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I f*cking love Jake and Edward.

I prefer Jake and Elwood.

billymitchell

I actually saw this on the box, it was hilarious!!
Warning: the following video may contain traces of Jedward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IXnxg1jq7k

bonerm

Biggins wrote: »

I do have to laugh at the knocking they get.

Here we have two lads who can't sing, can't dance, have girls falling at their feet, making loads of money and living it up.

...And they get knocked!

Lets be real, they could be any single Irish bloke according to the first part of the above description.
They just had the gaul to step up and chance their arm.

Fair fcuks to them I say! LOL

Why should we celebrate mediocrity?

biko

Jed Ward is such a stupid name, they should have named him Jedi.

super_furry

bonerm wrote: »

Why should we celebrate mediocrity?

Because the world is laughing at them, not with them.

bonerm

biko wrote: »

Jed Ward is such a stupid name, they should have named him Jedi.

Leave the Jedi out of this! These guys are even worse than Episode II .

PeterIanStaker

Dimebag Darrell was murdered.
John Lennon was murdered.


. . . one of Jedward "fell over".


There is no justice in this world.

ch750536

If the England team had half the staying power he did they would still be in South Africa. Then again, they all preferred to be in Barbados seemingly..

Biggins

bonerm wrote: »

Why should we celebrate mediocrity?

...Because rather than hang around doing nothing, drinking, smoking, etc, they at least chanced their arm, are making money and laughing it up (to the bank).
Ok, I admit they are not the best by far but how are they different from Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Jordan, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian to name just a few?

Are we so petty that we have to knock a couple of CLEAN living chancers?

They could be bloody worse - they could be money robbing TD's or worse.
Its all about proper perspective!

I've 4 kids and I would rather have them doing what these boys are doing than out causing trouble in so many, many ways thats possible today.

NothingMan

Biggins wrote: »

how are they different from Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Jordan, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian to name just a few?

I haven't seen Jedwards vag spread all over the interwebz.

walshb

Biggins wrote: »

I do have to laugh at the knocking they get.

Here we have two lads who can't sing, can't dance, have girls falling at their feet, making loads of money and living it up.

...And they get knocked!

Lets be real, they could be any single Irish bloke according to the first part of the above description.
They just had the gaul to step up and chance their arm.

Fair fcuks to them I say! LOL

I disagree. What is dancing and singing when you have the likes of Mary Coughlan
and Shane McGowan and Bono as singers. Then you have that sham, Boyzone,
where one can sing and the rest just tag along having a laugh.

Jedward can sing and dance, but most importantly, they can entertain and perform and are full of enthusiasm. They put on a show. I am not one bit surprised that one of them has been injured. The energy and bounce they put into their routines is unreal. I always noticed that from their X Factor shows, how full of bounce and lift and
energy they were...

Myrddin

billymitchell wrote: »

I actually saw this on the box, it was hilarious!!
Warning: the following video may contain traces of Jedward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IXnxg1jq7k

Having a "broken" leg seems to have made absoloutely no difference to the performance at all. What a pair of troopers :rolleyes:

Biggins

NothingMan wrote: »

I haven't seen Jedwards vag spread all over the interwebz.

Very true - and what happened when one seriously damaged his leg - he kept going and carried on entertaining till the end! I give him credit for that.

Biggins

walshb wrote: »

I disagree. What is dancing and singing when you have the likes of Mary Coughlan
and Shane McGowan and Bono as singers....

They are in a different higher class of skill altogether.
These boys are entertaining to a category that want to be entertained by an act at THIS level and are quite happy to pay for it if necessary.

In time as one matures tastes will change, it happens us all.
But before we all just wake up and instantly recognise the VERY good from the not so good, we go through our own phases of liking something that others might disagree with and is lighter in entertainment value.

Thats were these boys now fit in and are filling a niche while actually doing it maintaining as CLEAN living lifestyle without drink and/or drugs.
I can't knock that!

I'm better spending my energy of dislike towards something that is more serious - and by lord sadly there is many a thing in Ireland that deserves that dislike energy more.

bonerm

Biggins wrote: »

...Because rather than hang around doing nothing, drinking, smoking, etc, they at least chanced their arm, are making money and laughing it up (to the bank).
Ok, I admit they are not the best by far but how are they different from Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Jordan, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian to name just a few?

Are we so petty that we have to knock a couple of CLEAN living chancers?

They could be bloody worse - they could be money robbing TD's or worse.
Its all about proper perspective!

I've 4 kids and I would rather have them doing what these boys are doing than out causing trouble in so many, many ways thats possible today.

So one can be a troll-headed goon or be sit around wasting ones life on drink and drugs? It's not an either-or.

Personally I'd prefer my kids to make decent honest hard-working lives for themselves than to be exposed to the world for being nothing more than a couple of talentless feather-brains who won a lottery of sorts. I don't think this pair should be congratulated just for being the clowns who get to fill this particular niche for the next 12 months until the new flavour of the year is decided upon.

I've nothing against them personally. I'm just opposed to the fact that we live in a world where mediocrity gets to be celebrated in the first place.

ShaneU

I actually seen that happening on channel 4, I just thought it was one of their dance moves.

drunkmonkey

walshb wrote: »

Jedward can sing and dance

You could be wide open for correction on that statement, I've never seen them do either. They wouldn't win a Karaoke contest for singing let alone a dance off at a convention for the blind.

Biggins

bonerm wrote: »

...Personally I'd prefer my kids to make decent honest hard-working lives for themselves than to be exposed to the world for being nothing more than a couple of talentless feather-brains who won a lottery of sorts. I don't think this pair should be congratulated just for being the clowns who get to fill this particular niche for the next 12 months until the new flavour of the year is decided upon.

I've nothing against them personally. I'm just opposed to the fact that we live in a world where mediocrity gets to be celebrated in the first place.

Thats a very fair comment and I agree with it a lot to be truthful.
However if it wasn't Jedward that was doing this irrelevant stuff, it would sadly be someone else.
As it is, I prefer them to do it and meanwhile they are setting one example that its possible to do it without having to expose oneself, sniff drugs, party all night till one falls in the street (Lohan/Spears) and so on...

While they are clearly not the best in the entertainment world and in 5 years time might be still on our screens in a show or two, at least what they are doing now - is the lesser of not two but many evils.

tommy21

Did he died?

Lando Griffin

Edward is probably on his hospital bed as we speak penning his Autobiography.

Biggins

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Edward is probably on his hospital bed as we speak penning his Autobiography.

...After he reads Miley Cyrus's one which was already written last year at the old age of 16! :pac:

caseyann

Lovely guys,they were in a shop recently and all the staff asked them for autographs for their kids But he went back out to his 2010 http://www.dymee.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bb0c3_land-rover.jpg and wrote a whole load of autographs and red as anything while doing it:D

bonerm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Edward is probably on his hospital bed as we speak penning his Autobiography Brother.

FYP

Captain Darling

tommy21 wrote: »

Did he died?

No, he didnt died.

Biggins

tommy21 wrote: »

Did he died?

Captain Darling wrote: »

No, he didnt died.

:pac:

Cookie_Monster

I bet he didn't have to wait 4 hours 2 days for a bed...

Biggins

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I bet he didn't have to wait 4 hours 2 days for a bed...

All those screaming girls at the concert? You can be damn sure! :pac:

Awesome-O

I completely agree with everything Biggins said, I'd much rather my children turn to something like what Jedward are doing then sitting at home on the dole like some many students fresh from school or college at doing at the moment, because they have heard there's a recession so can't be bothered even trying to look for a job.

Unlike a lot of people Jedward are doing a job that they love and they put 200% into every performance they doing, having seen them live in Croke Park I can completely appreciate this and really am not surprised one of them injured himself with all the energy they put into their performances.
True they are not great singers, but I am one of the people who would much rather pay to see a great all round performance, singing, dancing, interacting with the audience, having fun rather than an act standing in the middle of the stage miming their way through a concert with minimal movement, I would much rather listen to a CD for this.

And as further proof of their professionalism and dedication, after his fall Edward got back onto his one good foot and carried on, as someone has already posted, pity the English team hadn't shown such dedication to their cause during the world cup!!

All the best to Edward, lets hope he's back in top form for their roles in the Cinderella pantomime at Christmas

KittyeeTrix

Aw the poor thing, hope he's not too hurt:(

EdgarAllenPoo

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Maybe the doctor will put him out of our misery

Blam-Blam

FYP.

Wompa1

Talk about tough..you could barely tell he was hurt! :P

cocalolaman

I was hoping he'd injure the leg even more after he continued..

rossie1977

bonerm wrote: »

I've nothing against them personally. I'm just opposed to the fact that we live in a world where mediocrity gets to be celebrated in the first place.

we can blame simon cowell for that, its only thanks to him that talentless people like jedward and cheryl cole are celebrated

Yakult

STUPID thread title, got my ****ing hopes up..

fergalr

Hey,

Look, I'm not a fan of Jedward - I've nothing against them, they do their thing, but they are aimed at a different demographic.


In that video, the guy clearly hurts his leg, pretty badly, around 30 seconds in. He's obviously injured, but does his best to keep it going, limping, to continue the performance.
He even falls over with the pain/injury, two minutes in.
He still keeps going. All the way to the end of the act. Doing his best, and obviously in a lot of pain.


You mightn't like the singing. It might have been unwise of him to continue on the leg, after an injury.

But you've got to have at least a grudging respect for the guy enduring that. That was a display of guts, and gutting it out under pressure, and showed a resilience that I don't think you'd get from many of the celebrities they are usually lumped in with.

Full marks in the category of 'the-show-must-go-on'. Hope the leg heals ok.